![Scot Squad. Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson (Jack Docherty) Scot Squad. Chief Commissioner Cameron Miekelson (Jack Docherty)](https://cdn.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/300x200/s/scot_squad.jpg)
Scot Squad
- TV sitcom
- BBC Scotland / BBC One Scotland / BBC Two Scotland
- 2012 - 2023
- 49 episodes (8 series)
Semi-improvised documentary spoof following the Scottish police force. Stars Jack Docherty, Jordan Young, Sally Reid, Ashley Smith, Chris Forbes and more.
Press clippings Page 5
Thurso Police Station gets Scot Squad prop
BBC Scotland comedy series Scot Squad responded to an SOS call from Thurso Police Station after they contacted programme makers about a picture prop featured in an episode.
BBC Press Office, 9th November 2015Grado and Manjot Sumal have to hold down regular jobs
Grado and Manjot Sumal might be a hit as TV's comedy cops.. but both hold down regular jobs off set.
Paul O'Hare, Daily Record, 9th November 2015Scot Squad creator on how police helped script
Writer Joe Hullait, the man behind the BBC Scotland series, was collared by rozzers keen to give him the inside track on serving for the under-fire force.
Paul English, Daily Record, 22nd October 2015I was worried that the second series of this spoof police show might introduce new characters but I'm glad to report that they haven't tampered with their brilliant cast. However, one change has been made, though it's for the best: the mockingly serious narration used to be jammed full of absolutely aggravating and annoying alliterations but this has been dropped. Otherwise, it's the same, I'm glad to report, as Series 1.
Two daft cops visit a posh house to deliver a summons and find a burglar at work, but he's determined to pretend he's the man of the house. It belongs to an Asian family so he insists his name is Jimbo Kumar. He's from the East, you see. The East End, ask the cops? Ah, no further East than that, he says. What, Fife?
But the best characters are Officer Karen and Boabby. Making the police accessible to the community means weary Officer Karen has to politely deal with his incessant visits to the station, even when he's just there to say, "Awrite, Officer Karen! Want a shot of ma stunt kite?" or to report that he's found a welly full of gloves.
Julie McDowall, The National (Scotland), 19th October 2015Jordan Young admits: Life of crime is easy PC for me
River City star is swapping sides to dish out more cuff love as PC Jack McLaren in new series of spoof cop show.
Paul English, Daily Record, 17th October 2015Interview: Scot Squad's Darren Connell
As police mockumentary Scot Squad returns for a second series we talk to one of its stars about getting the acting bug and method nerves.
Jay Richardson, The List, 7th October 2015The heavy promotion of Scot Squad, the latest in the tradition of Rab C Nesbitt, Still Game, Chewin' the Fat and others, demonstrates BBC Scotland's belief that the only form of comedy which is appropriate for television is patronisingly coarse portrayals of the working and non-working class, an attitude doubtless fuelled by a self-congratuÂlatory sense of comradeship with the characters.
In so doing, the programme makers are producing what they would leap to condemn in others, namely, clichéd and distorted representations of Scottish life and culture from which they would loftily and fashionably recoil.
Duncan Macintyre, The Herald, 28th October 2014Scot Squad preview
Improvised TV comedy Scot Squad has a mix of trained and untrained actors mining a fertile seam of funny.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 27th October 2014Jack Docherty interview
Scots comic Jack Docherty tells why No vote in independence could mean comeback for his most famous character McGlashan.
Paul English, Daily Record, 18th October 2014Cult wrestler Grado to appear in Scot Squad
You might not have heard of 25-year-old Graeme Stevely, from Stevenston. You probably haven't heard of his wrestling alter-ego Grado either yet... Later this year, he'll be in police mockumentary Scot Squad and also has a part in BBC comedy pilot The Sunny.
Paul English, Daily Record, 6th March 2014